Context aware education for agriculture

This paper reports results of an ethnographic study undertaken to support the development of an educational tool for a context-aware computing project. This research looked at how teachers use an agricultural context (i.e., school gardens) to teach and how farmers learn within the context of a farm. The goal of this research was to define a set of needs that we could address in developing an educational application that makes use of a mobile device that includes high-definition video, broadband connectivity, and various on-board sensors. More importantly, this mobile device will, on the basis of these data, generate inferences to be used in computer vision and other applications. Our immediate future work is to explore ways in which devices of this type can influence learning and teaching.